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#624502
Topic
Episode III: Revenge of the Ridiculousness
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NeverarGreat said:


-Take Anakin's dialogue to Padme from the Fireplace Scene in Episode 2 and have him pour his heart out to Palpatine.

-When Obi-wan meets Bruce Spence on Utapau, he greets Obi-wan as the Mouth of Sauron.

-The wings that open on the fighters have smaller wings of their own.

-In the first scene, Obi-wan's shipboard computer is Eddie: "If you don't mind, I'm going to take evasive action."

-The movie freezes whenever Anakin is about to say something particularly stupid, and several dialogue options appear. The worst option is always chosen. "No, it's because I'm so in love with you!" "I don't know what to say."
I like these ideas. The others seems not much possible.

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#624358
Topic
Oscars 2013
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Warbler said:



doubleofive said:

 Having Jennifer Hudson sing between Catherine Zeta-Jones & the cast of Les Mis shows why more movie musicals should hire SINGERS first and actors second, though the sampling of Les Mis wasn't as terrible as I had imagined (except for Russell Crowe).


*gives doubleofive a standing ovation*
We had a good laugh after the orchestra dropped "All That Jazz" by a third from the intro so CZJ could sing it.

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#624339
Topic
Oscars 2013
Time

My wife and I fast forwarded through the first two hours on Hulu, just stopping for the musical bits. The opening bit was pretty good, once things got rolling & it wasn't Seth awkwardly reading jokes off a teleprompter. I'm still torn on Kirk showing up. I'm sure it was something Seth wrote when he realized he had all the power, but each skit he showed went on WAY too long, just like Family Guy does a lot. We get it, singing about boobs is funny, we got that after the first verse, you didn't have to perform the whole song complete with chorus (though the last part about Kate Winslet was pretty good).

My wife loved seeing Daniel Radcliffe & Joseph Gordon Levitt, two of her crushes, sing & dance together. Having Jennifer Hudson sing between Catherine Zeta-Jones & the cast of Les Mis shows why more movie musicals should hire SINGERS first and actors second, though the sampling of Les Mis wasn't as terrible as I had imagined (except for Russell Crowe).

The Bond piece was OK, Halle Berry should have been the last person up there presenting when I'm sure you've got at least 2 Bonds in the audience. Missing the opportunity to have all 5 up there makes me sad, though Shirley Bassey singing Goldfinger was pretty awesome.

We got to Adele singing Skyfall just before we had to leave, say whatever you want about her, we think she's a great singer.

Tonight I'm sure we'll fast forward through the last hour.

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#624195
Topic
Violent Video Games
Time

CP3S said:



thejediknighthusezni said:

     I wonder whether GTA is producing drivers with greater situational awareness and ability to act.


Oh, I had forgotten about that! GTA has never been my type of game and I've never really had any interest in it, but for some reason I did get into Vice City for a while. It marks one game where I did notice an effect on my behavior, I found it tempting to drive faster and more aggressively. I've always been a really safe driver, and these urges were easy to control, but I did notice them. It did not however, give me any urges to kill hookers, run over pedestrians, run from or shoot cops, or sell drugs from the back of ice cream trucks.
I have to admit there was a time I would get really cautious around cop cars, because if you bump into a cop car in GTA they start chasing you.